EDIFICATION COMPLEX of the SOUL #3 - Grace vs Legalism & Sanctification Phases (6-29-25)

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GRACE ORIENTATION

The first thing we will address is the word, “ORIENTATION”.

English Definition - an introduction, as to guide one in adjusting to new surroundings, employment, activity, or the like:
In the plan of God, Operation Grace, was provided for man before man was created. Therefore, man cannot earn and cannot deserve God’s grace. Under grace, God does the work and man is only the beneficiary. Under Super Grace, God does the pursuing and man receives the blessings.

Unbelievers are not orientated to the grace of God.

A. Grace is all that God is free to do for man on the basis of the cross. God is free to express His love through grace and He does this without jeopardizing His essence.
1. Grace depends upon the essence of God; therefore, grace depends on who and what God is. Grace is what God can do for man and still be consistent with His own character.
2. The believer must realize the difference between grace and legalism. Legalism is man’s ability and works, intruding upon the plan of God. Man’s works cannot coexist with God’s works. Such an implied coexistence is blasphemy. Grace excludes human works!

(Legalism vs Grace) CBC Website, Home Page, Visuals

ECS – LESSON 3 (6-29-25)
3. Every believer has tasted the grace of God at least once, at the moment of salvation. Every believer receives around 40 irrevocable assets from God that are impossible to lose.

Romans 11:29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
4. This grace package of salvation cannot be cancelled or destroyed either by God Himself, by angels, or by mankind.
5. There is an occupational hazard for believers, it is disorientation to grace in the field of *Reversionism. Under these conditions, in Galatians 5:4, Reversionism is called “falling from grace,” and in Hebrews 12:15 it is called “coming short of grace.” So reversionism is a great danger after one has erected an (ECS).

*Reversionism is an act of reversing or turning in the opposite way. In Reversionism, there is a reversal of your priorities, your attitudes, your affections, and your values.

(8 Stages of Reversionism) CBC Website, Home Page, Visuals

6. The divine attitude in grace: God is constantly waiting to pour out His grace to every believer in Phase Two.

(Sanctification Phases 1, 2, & 3) CBC Website, Home Page, Visuals

Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Romans 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24) being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

Romans 4:4-5 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 5) But to him who does not work but believes on Him (J.C),who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9) not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Hebrews 2:9 But we do see Him who has been made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.